“HER” Ruby-shade-faded marble-brown swirl with pepper-salt strand-streaks. This describes the hair of “HER”! Rich outlined surprise brows short of meeting with an upside-down question-mark nose, equal high-rise bone-cheeks and eyes like sparkling stars from a trillion miles away. This describes the face

Soul Play I think of our mornings… soul play While others are making love, we are getting our spirits in check, Tuning ourselves intensively inside the others needs Generating communication while feeding our love seeds No time for reading minds, so we

There’s so many untold secrets that another doesn’t share It can put you in a place that you’ve tried to resist Don’t judge by the other character because you don’t know what state of mind is hidden inside The pain of rejection

Never Really Gave a Damn I don’t look at her the same way… It’s sorrowful and saddening, almost sickening the view now Before, it was that she was a hero to me, I admire her, but I guess the real her I

Ancestral Curse I am the daughter of my fear, It raises me to be vigilant Carrying the bags of her past Weighs me down Holding me down, Drowning me in self-doubt I am the granddaughter of my hurt, I have carried decades

I have No Field of Lilies Only Cotton Flowers that Bloom When I dance Nurtured and watered by By Bloody Fingers that drip from being pricked Twirl Spin and Fly High Gravity is my Sky For I am unable to be

GO AHEAD & JUDGE ME THEN CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR MY BONDAGE FREE RECOVERY I’m GOING THROUGH SPIRITUAL CHANGES CAN’T YOU SEE? OR ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THE DEAD GIRL I USE TO BE? WHEN SATAN USE TO STRUT ALONG SIDE ME

I’ve loved her from the beginning and the love will never end; she’s my baby, my heart, my best friend. I tried to protect her from all the wrong; she endured her pain and it made her so strong. I would give

We are family Poets and Poetresses Wordsmiths and spoken word Authors and rappers We are family Jealousy has no place here Envy has no place here We all have to lift every voice To help out when we can Who are we

The first time I met this entity I was Caught off Guard Lonely, Desperate and Indeed in need of what you all may call LOVE She Greeted me with a Grinful Salutation this morning while standing behind at my vanity Then she

W I P Appeal Poetry On the Up rise No Surprise You whispered words in the night That made my nature arise A haunting Metaphorical Smith of words you be Doing it to my earhole Stroking words that went it deeply

As the sun rests its weary head upon horizon´s breast, I amble in the cemetery, while others are in beds to rest, This place where old bats hover & black cats go to prowl, Where earth gives way to digging, of pick

They become unlaced and unwoven,
Into threads of forgotten strings
No longer knotted,
They hang separate
Each now unique and distinguished
The ending of a once sturdy tapestry

Symbolic of each man and every woman
Standing alone, unbothered
Segregated and isolated by self-idealism
As each of their importance outweighs
The other until it eliminates
No longer complementary
But a hazard marked in red flags

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